The war certainly changed my life. When I came home and saw people pulling and dragging wires inside the house. They said, "We've already seen the apartment. Five officers will come here now, you can make five beds for them, and you're not allowed to take anything out. Nothing. Only what you're wearing." And in the afternoon, the next day, I came and said, "You know what, I'm not asking for anything else, but give me some laundry. You won't wear my underwear." So he said, "Okay, you can take that." And everything else was left in the apartment. When I was alone in the forest for the first time, then I said, "Let's see you now. In Tuzla, you were a protected, nobody could touch you. Now here in the forest where you have no one and nothing., let's see how you'll manage." And I did, not only me but also my mother, for whom I said she was the last Austro-Hungarian lady who couldn't find her way around at all. She stood there, and waited to see what will happen. I carried her with me for two years, pulled her, fed her, everything ------- „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 changed my life, my character and life path are actually children. I´ve always known I wanted children, even when I was young. And then came that moment of an euphoric young artist who was traveling the world and a question, can I be an artist and a mother. I didn´t know if I could but it was my dream so I went for both. I´m still an artist, I´m a mother but maybe a bit less successful in a way I thought I would be then or wished to be. Children changed me in a way that I do things completely differently. I started doing things about children, around children, education, I had to further educate myself to be a mother, gather new knowledge to be a better mother for them. ------- „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´m a mother, grandmother, woman, volunteer, all the nice things in life. I feel great. I feel free, smart, reasonable. I´ve gained a huge dose of tolerance which I think I didn´t have when I was young. Maturity, freedom, just as it should be. I´m healthy so only the sky is the limit. My late mother, not that she was a phenomenal woman, she was a woman ahead of her time, a woman for all times. Tolerant. And what she taught me I teach my daughter and granddaughter. Open, clear, loud. I can´t say she was strict, but she was exactly as she should have been. She gave me so much freedom that I felt privileged when I was very young to have that freedom and understanding from both my mother and my father. ------- „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 can say that I´m very happy to be 38 because that turbulent phase is behind me, the 20´s, many questions especially the ones regarding the meaning of life. I have many answers, I didn´t hope that I will get that many answers even those I didn´t ask for. They came unconsciously, with spiritual, physical and cognitive growth throught that entire process. Of course, by getting stronger not only through my professional life but also interpersonal relationships and understanding the human soul. Other people´s intentions but my own intentions as well. It became clear to me what I want of myself and what is my true purpose in life and what I achieve out of it. But that´s the most important thing. --------- „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

The difference between girls and boys is that girls are a bit more complicated than the boys and demand a bit more from the boys. Boys like it more or less simple, girls are a bit more complicated and everything needs to be perfect, to most of them and men, they don´t care. At least that´s what I´ve heard from our class mates. My class friends, they are well perceived but there are some things that are different between boys and girls. I think they are perceived differently and women are different than men. They understand some things better than men. ------- „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´m a type of person who fights until the end. That means of course that many see me as a Don Kihot who fights the windmills in vain. But I made my peace with the fact that without Don Kihots and people who never give up this World wouldn´t be as it is now. Because that fighting spirit I have is a part of my existence, my being. I think the moment I´ll get up, shrug my shoulders and say, that´s how it should be, that wouldn´t be me anymore. I´m a part of the generation who spent best years of their youth during the wartime. Literally over night my glass balloon of a literature student who does art and goes to Kinoteka, secretly wants to study dramaturgy, writes and imagines her life as a life of a professor who will have enough time, money and space to travel to desired destinations broke. Suddenly, over night, I had to make peace with the fact that my generation had to leave their All Star shoes and take the army boots and that all of us have to go through sirens. ------- „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´s horrible for me to see that we now have to fight again for the rights our grandmothers already fought for. It´s maybe better in some things than it was then, regarding equality, regarding the fact that our partners now more than then realize that we are equal in the households, that woman is not the one who has to clean the house and make lunch, we share those jobs. Regarding that I would say it´s a bit better, but regarding all the social battles we still struggle with, it´s not better. Maybe even worse. Position of women in the business world, I don´t see it´s any different. There´s a level we can reach and after that we can´t go any further. ------- „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

The position of women is not the best, especially considering the situations we witness and everything happening around miscarriage, I don´t have to comment, we all know how it is. Regarding sexual harassment and things like that, I go through that and know how the things are, honking, shouting, looks, eyeing, I am aware of all of that and it bothers me that a women is always perceived as an object. I don´t know if weĺl ever be able to change it but at least the medical care should get better. Looking at societal state and the society, it´ll be hard. ------- „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’ve never thought if I wanted to be a traditional or a different woman. I never compared myself; I only did what made me happy. I´ve never done anything I had to and don´t want to. I think and I am different because a lot of my peers already have children and family or plan it. So I am different but I wouldn´t point that out, it´s not special, you just follow your character and it brings you to the life you have now. Two and a half years ago I entered a new relationship and thanks to that person I started to work on myself more, accept myself and realized what are my wishes, where I´m happy, what I want and don´t want, so that was a big turnaround thanks to which I managed to sort my life in a way that I am satisfied with it. ------- „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