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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. "

" My friendships are very important to me. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "