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

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

" I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

" 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. "

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

" When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. "

" My friendships are very important to me. "

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

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

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

" The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

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

" 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. "

" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "

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

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

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