I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.