On `Eastern European Women`
(WorldNews Italy)

`A Serb makes a good wife: she can pull the cart out of mud.` That old Serbian proverb, its genius author has no name. It´s like the earthy quip from a hospital that I once heard in real life; after her severe car crash, the emergency doctor told her worried husband: Don´t you worry man, those Herzegovinian vipers are hard to kill! I´m personally half Serb and half Herzegovinian, so I take these attitudes to my heart, half proud and half offended. But my American friend said: what about the Serbian and Herzegovinian husbands? Are they pleased about their mud-carting vipers? Is that the kind of proper home-girl that a local guy just has to have? Good questions! If enough years go by, a man...