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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.

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Jewelry Designer
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University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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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.
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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