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

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

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

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "

" 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.' "

" People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" My friendships are very important to me. "

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I really believe in the idea of the future. "

" 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. "

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