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"Women have been working so hard, but it stayed invisible in the official history - we had to dig a lot in the archives to come to the data."

Radmila Gujaničić, activist, Women's Center Uzice

"Gender is the compass that determines a woman's life."

Slavica Simic, activist, Counseling for Women with Breast Cancer Jefimija, Uzice

"Before becoming an activist, I did not have any support in confronting the injustices against women, which I noticed as a child. Only in activism I could find someone to be an affiliated with. I’m endlessly grateful to all feminists."

Radmila Gujaničić, activist, Women's Center Uzice

"The biggest problems of Roma women are lack of education, poverty, violence, the fact that mostly they just sit at home within their families, it is difficult for them to open up to others."

Zorica Zenulovic, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

 "Activism has taught me responsibility, that everything we start, it should be completed."

Vuka Abedinović activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

"I am proud of myself because I feel that I am a better person thanks to the activism and that I go through breaking prejudices."

Danica Tomašević, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

"All women should be educated."

Danica Tomašević, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

 "What once was a shame for a man to do in a traditional Roma family, my husband today does, there is no division between male and female jobs and that is why I now have more free time for myself, I have a much larger circle of friends."

Ana Saćipović, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

 "For some it takes less time to start the change in her/his life, and for others it takes much, much more."

Ana Saćipović, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

 "Many of Roma women for the first time got a gift for March 8 from us - went out on their own in the restaurant."

Ana Saćipović, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis

"What has attracted most Roma women to come to us, is the fact that we called them to join us and to get out of their homes, and now they bring their neighbors, relatives and friends."

Ana Saćipović, activist, Association of Roma Women Osvit, Nis  

 "We have never said - We do this because someone has to pay us. No, we're doing this because we love to, because we want to, we do it because tomorrow someone will say - Oh, these are women who have given us help and support in a situation when we had the hardest time."

Snezana Daskalović, activist SOS Vlasotince

"Many older women in rural areas can not remember their names. When I ask them how they can not remember, they say, "Well, nobody called me by my name." "So how do they call you?" "They call me anyway, or by my husband's name or" Hey You ". All women in the villages have the same name - Hey you."

Svetlana Saric, activist SOS Vlasotince

"In encounters with women I get a new energy that pulls me to go on."

Ljiljana Nesic, activist, Women for Peace Leskovac

"I can say what I think and that nobody interrupts me, I can have my autonomy and right to be different."

Ljiljana Nesic, activist, Women for Peace Leskovac

"I am proud to have young people around me, to know what I fight for not remains and will not remain only in words, but will be more and more deepened. "

Svetlana Saric, activist SOS Vlasotince

 "I did not know at the beginning it was called feminism, just knew that I did not want to be nobody's victim; I did not want anyone treating me as a commodity, to marginalize me."

Svetlana Saric, activist SOS Vlasotince

 "Now if you go through shops, kiosks, bakeries, you will not find a Roma woman to work. They are seeking for a job, but could not get it, because they are Roma."

Sanja Nesic, activist, Roma Association Novi Becej

"When I became familiar with the peace activism of Women in Black, suddenly something cleared up in my head, seeing them as they have so much energy, how much enthusiasm, how long they fight, where they’ve been and planning to go and that they are constantly on the ground."

Danica Pupovac, activist, Roma Association Danica Pancevo

"Therefore I am Roma women and I went through all that Roma women are still going through today, I know how this tradition is negative ( brides sale, juvenile marriages, violence, isolation) and how it affects women, how women are treated in the family, as well as in institutions. I speak from personal experience and what I've survived I do not want for young Roma women to go through anymore."

Danica Jovanovic, activist, Roma Association Novi Becej

 "I wanted to point out that there are Roma women as women, as human beings, as someone who has their rights."

Danica Jovanovic, activist, Roma Association Novi Becej

"Women who improved the quality of their lives and improved their chances for recovery from breast cancer, are actually the women who really started to change the relationships in their small communities, families, to change the gender roles."

Slavica Simic, activist, Counseling for Women with Breast Cancer Jefimija, Uzice

 "Politics of Human Rights is something we are interested in, not party politics."

Danica Jovanovic, activist, Roma Association Novi Becej

"In a country where I was born, I feel unsafe."

Ljiljana Nesic, activist, Women for Peace Leskovac

"Through an activism, I got the respect and the recognition that I was looking for all my life, and that I was missing."

Eta Kovac, activist, Hera, Backa Topola

"I'd always step forward. For me, gender equality is that one step further." 

Eta Kovac, activist, Hera, Backa Topola

"Unfortunately, there is no woman who does not experienced some form of violence. "

Jovanka Brkic, activist, Women in Action, Velika Plana

"Always and everywhere I see injustice toward women."

Snezana Stanojlović, activist, Women in Action, Velika Plana

"Doing this I continually learn something new, constantly introspecting myself."

Snezana Stanojlović, activist, Women in Action, Velika Plana

"Good in activism is that you live your life consciously, without masks, ready to react on injustice either in your own home, either on the street."

Biljana Stankovic Lori, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization"

"Activism is a free education on the most beautiful things in life - to be a better person, not to be violent and not to discriminate others."

Biljana Stankovic Lori, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization

 "Always remember sentence of Čarna: "Feminism is a happy ending."

Biljana Stankovic Lori, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization and Čarna Ćosić, lesbian and feminist activist

"Complex issues relating to lesbian existence are hiding, shame and fear."

Jelena Anđelovski, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization

"Lesbians need to meet, to socialize, to see that they are not the only one, that they are not alone, that they can share experiences with those who will understand them better than other people."

Jelena Anđelovski, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization

"Grassroots feminism is my driving force."

Aleksandra Arsovska, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization

"The privilege is to know who I am, that I’ve learned so many things and have yet to learn."

Aleksandra Arsovska, activist, Novi Sad Lesbian Organization