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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
Gifted
Feminist
Smart
Tough
Inspiration
Women

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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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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.
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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.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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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.
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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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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.'
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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