Ivana
Zdravkovic

Sonore 1
And then there is the everyday routine. In a single day, you go to work, you do your shift there, and when you come home, you keep working.
Laundry, ironing, cooking, vacuuming, wiping things down — what every woman does.
What every woman does.
I’ll just say this: women are very special, in every sense of the word. And every parent — mothers especially — wants to show their children the best version of themselves, to be a role model for them.
That’s why, because of my son, I accepted tougher, more demanding jobs. For him, of course, but also as a way of supporting all women — so they don’t think there are things they can’t achieve.

Sonore 2
I’m a very natural woman. Why do I say that?
Because when you look at a street cleaner, a professor, a director — when you look at anyone — you eventually realise that it all depends on you. The way you see others reflects the way you see yourself.
That’s why this feels natural to me.
It’s in women’s nature. Even a woman with five university degrees will, in the end, still hold the pot and the ladle, still stir what needs to be stirred.
My strength, personally, comes from inside myself.
What can I say? You may see me in a certain way, but I don’t see myself like that.
How do I see myself? As a fighting woman. A woman for whom it doesn’t matter what kind of job she does. What matters is being brave and pushing forward every day.
Because life is a struggle. All of life is a struggle.
There’s always something to do. You always have to push yourself. You don’t really have a choice. You have to eat, you have to work, you have to keep your family on the right path, look after your child, finish one thing after another.
And no one knows how hard it really is. No one knows your worries, your anxiety. No one knows whether you’re in a good mood, whether something is weighing on you, whether you even have the strength to do what’s expected of you.