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

Know what it is that you are trying to find out.

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.

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.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

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

When I taught, all my best students were women.