My mother was a very intelligent woman, pretty woman, but fate, since she married my father and gave birth to me, they agreed for her to stay at home. And that led to her not being able to fulfil her ambition and her as a person. Considering her anger and emotional unavailability I would say that she was quite frustrated because she wasn´t realized as a person. --------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

Most of our newspaper are filled with femicides and we are constantly exposed to the violence against women. For me it´s something that I have to get used to see in my everyday life. Here we have a mess, a mix of everything. On one side we have the Church which promotes women as mothers and child bearers, then we have some feminist organizations where a woman has to have male principles to be successful and basically, the position of women is always in comparison to the men´s position. Women never compare to one another but women to men. Then you have a woman who has to obtain male principles and then they say, she´s a strong woman and on the other hand women who are on the bottom of the society. You have to be strong or a whore. Something in-between is really hard to accept. --------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

I thought about it, it´s like I spent my 20´s in a shock of some sort. The work I do is quite stressful and you don´t know who you are yet, you´re trying to be something else. My personal impression is that it all went by in stress, convulsions with many mistakes and problems. But I´m very thankful for everything that resulted in good things, which enabled me to work today. But as the 20´s were behind me I started therapy, psychotherapeutically I started that process with myself. Now when I´m 34 I have a feeling that I´m getting to know myself, getting reacquainted, that I´m becoming something else. I think life will be like that from now on. That´s quite positive, I will say. --------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

We suffered, not only me but all women. I married in a poor house, my husband was also a partisan since he was 18. When he came home there were no jobs. There are no jobs now, but there weren´t any back then. My advice would be to learn as much as possible because everything is good to know. I made bread when I was nine, kneading dough. We had sheep ad when one would bred I was too scared so I called my neighbor because mum wasn´t at home, she would go and get the food. And so, I tried many things in my life. Many. --------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

There was one event, on 10th of April when Yugoslavia was attacked. It was announced; even though there were no media then that we had to run to the forest, to the fields. We escaped, my mother with my two elder brothers, 7 and 5 and me, two months old. We went to the forest and Bura was blowing hard, they say it was never like that. There was a little stone house there and women with children took turns to be there. My mother didn´t have time to take blankets and clothes and I started to freeze, turned blue, they thought I was dead. She held me for two days, we couldn´t go back home. An old woman our neighbor had a woolen scarf and she said, Luce, maybe Anka is not dead yet. I´m old, let me die, let´s rub her with this woolen scarf. And I started to cry. They were waiting for me back home to bury me. That´s a terrible memory. --------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

During this pandemic our family life suffered since my husband and I are both healthcare workers and have a close connection to Covid 19. That slowly becomes stressful. My husband missed the first birthday of our child because he was in isolation. That was catastrophic for us. Because he was in contact with a covid positive patient. In the beginning, those things are so trivial, but he was literally taking off his clothes in front of the building. He wasn´t coming home straight from work. The children were waiting by the door to see him but he wouldn´t come until he did all the necessary things so he wouldn´t accidently bring it to our home. Work is the same for all the nurses, we all know what our job us, me and my husband as well so there shouldn´t be any problems. We are used to continuous stress unfortunately. We are all, I won´t say damaged being 35, but we are. Some consequences are felt throught the last five years regarding mental and psychical health. All that in years starts to reflect on the aspects of family life and me personally. ---------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95 https://www.instagram.com/from5to95/

My mother had me when she was 20. But she really wanted, I have a sister, for us to be successful in our fields of work. Since she was a housewife, she was always saying that a woman has to work to have her freedom. We had a great relationship; she accepted my ideas and choices and supported me. She carried everything with a smile on her face. Now, as a woman of 50 I wouldn´t tolerate some things she tolerated to my father. He was good for us but I don´t know if he was a good husband to her. --------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

What made me who I am were nine strokes. When I realized that life is fragile and you should be good in life. Help people as much as you can and understand them. My experience with marriages and divorces I had warned me that nothing is forever and that you shouldn´t plead on eternal love and wait for mister perfect because that doesn´t exist. ---------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95

It seems to me that boys don´t talk about their feelings, they are a bit rougher than girls. And girls talk a lot about their feelings and they are kind towards boys, they don´t fight like some boys. I don´t mind those differences, I like them because somehow it´s better that we are not all the same and not much alike. ---------- „From5To95“ is an art project which serves as a platform for women´s stories and experiences. Every woman represents a year in a woman´s life- from 5 to 95. #from5to95 #od5do95 More on: https://www.od5do95.com https://www.facebook.com/Od5Do95/ https://twitter.com/Od5Do95