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

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

" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it? "

" In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "