A little girl in a pink dress caught her attention. Hadid watched her pull her foot out of her shoe and twist one ankle around the other. She said, “You know, we only think that people become individuals only later in life, and that children are unmolded, but you can see, can’t you, that they are individuals very early on.
Zaha Hadid. “The Abstractionist”, by John Seabrook. The New Yorker.