All Quotes

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. ”

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it. ”

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. ”

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

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. ”

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. ”

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. ”

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. ”

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' ”

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. ”