We were all together sitting on a top of a very low building in my street. We each wrote our diaries and then read it to each other. And somewhere in that most ordinary of ordinary days I used something that could be called a type of metaphor and they all laughed at that and mocked it. Like, why do you write in that way, can it be closer to what we see in reality. I would say that everything I did later is a type of dialogue with that situation. That moment when you get that first impulse to hide and cover in conformism and later that resistance that grew stronger, I think that´s something that was extremely formative for me and everything I did later on and still do. --------- „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

Position of women in Croatia is now worse than ever. Much worse. Better position would be… even if they take our right to vote, to take anything from us, it would be better than all they do to us today. You have a right, you have a right, when you get to that right you can´t have it. You don´t have it, you´re a woman. You will make progress in the society if you are educated. Get educated and nothing. The position you will get will be the one you will have for decades. It´s not better. There was a time when, at least in Podravina, woman was the one who had the money, she was respected, I grew up in a family like that. Women were always respected, their opinion, their way of doing things. That went from grandmother to daughter-in- law, to her children, grandchildren. It was always, that´s how you do it, but nobody ever said it´s woman´s work. It was not woman´s work, it was her choice. --------- „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

My advice to a young girl who is starting her life would be that we have plans and goals, to follow what she planned for herself. But life is full of wonder and amazing people we´ll meet along the way and experiences we´ll have, sometimes not planned so they unnerve you but I believe they come with a purpose. The brave one is not the one who doesn´t fall but the one who knows how to fall. You should look at life as learning how to fall, so you don´t bruise a lot but fall. Falls are not mistakes, they are adventures. In 10 years? I decided I don´t want to see myself anywhere, I have plans but I realized it´s best when life surprises me. --------- „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 am now my own boss, not only mine, but to 15 to 20 people, men and women but while I was growing up I never thought I could do something like that. Not because I´m incompetent, it´s just something like that wasn´t for women. That was buried very deep because you didn´t see women in those positions. I wish that when I was little there were more role models of that kind. Those women who are every kind and different and that it doesn´t matter what they do and what are they like. I actually hope that the girls who are growing up now, not that they won´t have any problems, every generation has its problems, maybe that they will think of more things as possible. --------- „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

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