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" My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. "

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" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. "

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

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

" I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. "

" My generation were all careerists. "

" People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. "

" 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. "

" My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame. "

" 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.' "

" As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" 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. "