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" It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. "

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" My friendships are very important to me. "

" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "

" I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't. "

" As a woman, you're not accessible to every world. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. "

" I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it? "

" I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends. "

" The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. "

" I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid. "

" I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' "

" Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. "

" Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women. "

" Men think a woman should not have an opinion. "

" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

" The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice. "

" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

" I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' "

" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

" Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. "

" For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. "

" You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well. "

" Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. "

" I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. "

" I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. "

" Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on. "

" My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. "

" In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. "

" In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves. "