Zaha Hadid Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.”

“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.”

“Men think a woman should not have an opinion.”

“My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.”

“My generation were all careerists.”

“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.”

“Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.”

“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.”