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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Designer
Jewelry Designer
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Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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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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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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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.
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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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