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

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" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

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

" Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true. "

" I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" My generation were all careerists. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

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

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