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" Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on. "

Zaha Hadid

Women

People

Confidence

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

Zaha Hadid

I Am

Tough

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

Zaha Hadid

Problem

Time

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

" 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. "

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

Zaha Hadid

Them

Allowances

" I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My friendships are very important to me. "

Zaha Hadid

Friendships

Very

" 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. "