“The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the ...” — Isabella Lovin Quote

“The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.”

“I am proud to represent the first explicitly feminist government in the world, and one that has been at the forefront of advocating for greater attention to women, peace, and security.”

“President Donald Trump's decision to ban American aid to all organisations that in any way advocate women's right to abortions is very unfortunate. All experience shows that this kind of decision does not reduce the number of abortions; rather, it forces girls and women to revert to life-threatening procedures.”

“If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much more sustainable development.”

“Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off.”

“I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.”

“A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.”

“I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.”

“I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.”

“Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.”