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" Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard. "

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" When I taught, all my best students were women. "

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

" I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong. "

" I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

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

" I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. "

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

" 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. "

" I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places. "

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

" What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. "

" If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it. "

" When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. "

" The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme. "

" There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. "

" I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. "

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

" My friendships are very important to me. "

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

" 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. "

" Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun. "

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

" I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. "

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

" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

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