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

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

" My generation were all careerists. "

" I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East. "

" I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. "

" What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. "

" I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild. "

" My friendships are very important to me. "

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

" I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful. "

" Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? "

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

" It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. "

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

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

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

" 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 find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "