Zaha Hadid Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.”

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

“What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.”

“If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.”

“I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?”

“Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.”

“People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.”

“I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.”

“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.”

“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”