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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.

From Zaha Hadid

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

From Zaha Hadid

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.

From Zaha Hadid

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.

From Zaha Hadid

Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

From Zaha Hadid

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

From Zaha Hadid

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

From Zaha Hadid

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

From Zaha Hadid

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.

From Zaha Hadid

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

From Zaha Hadid

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