R: My brother wanted to study, and the two girls and I couldn’t. That's all... I: Why your brother could study and not the grils? R: Because at that time it wasn’t thought necessary for girls to study as much as boys. That's all... I: Why not as much as boys?
R: Before I started teaching, one evening I was at my fathers house, having dinner. My father, his wife, my stepbrother and his friend were there, and we were talking about school, and memories of school.
R: (Before I got married, I imagined) having a classic family, because my parents were really fine, for them it worked well all their life, so I thought it was natural, that it would be the same for me.<br />(...) I: (...) Something got lost, in the way people consider the couple?
I: You have mentioned that your and your sister's upbringing was a little bit different. What were the main differences?
I: (...) you said your only male traumas are connected with COUNTRY 1 army, what did you mean by this?
I: (...) and is there anything else that comes to your mind? For instance, I do not know, regarding the sphere of work, upbringing…? Or some family relationships?
R: This is a much older story and it has to do with my ‘opoe’, as we called her, the mother of my father. I will put it this way: I was called after my grandfather. So, the same name as her husband. My given name was the same.
R: I think also the feminist of a woman in your own right kind of thing and being individual, and all the rest of that, was great in terms of leaving all the rubbish behind that was disadvantage to women and all the horrible stuff.
R: I have never been a stereotypical boy. I used to play with dolls when I was a child. My parents bought them to me without any problem. Looking back, it is a bit strange. I had two Barbie dolls.
R: First of all, I am a university student, and there...in a class in political science, we had to do a presentation. Not only me... but there were several of us working on the same topic.
R: She (my grandmother) lived on this (French) Mediterranean Island, but she wasn’t from there, she was from Central Europe and she had to escape due to her origins.
R: Well, yes. I remember myself from a very young age, from age of three and even when I was still in a pram. (…) When I was loved and somehow like that, then in a few years it all turned absolutely different, not in a moment, little by little.