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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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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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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 loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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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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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.
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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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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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.
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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.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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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.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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