Marie Žlábková

“And I had my mother here, she had a laughable pension because mothers didn’t go to work beforehand, when I was little, Dad earned our keep. So she had a pension of some six hundred crowns. And my husband would write various screenplays for people who were employed at the television, and they published it under their own name and gave him half of the money they got for it.”

“Whenever there were elections under Communism, I said to myself: I won’t vote them, even if I get in trouble for it. They issued these absentee voting cards in case a person wasn’t at home. And we have a cottage in southern Bohemia, in Nežárka, and drove off there, surrounded by deep forests, nobody looked for me there.”