(born the 9th of August 1939 in Warsaw) – Polish writer and satirist, author of texts of songs, scriptwriter, columnist, and journalist. Name Czubaszek she preserved after her first husband. She studied at the Department of Journalism, and also at the English Philology Department of the University of Warsaw. She got involved professionally with Programme III of the Polish Radio. She is most known for her satirical texts, among others” Serwus, jestem nerwus”. The songs with her texts can be heard performed by such artists as: Alibabki, Ewa Bem, Katarzyna Cerekwicka, Grzegorz Markowski, Krystyna Prońko, Ryszard Rynkowski (Rycz mała rycz), Trubadurzy, and VOX. She has written dialogues for such films as – „Filip z konopi” and „ Murmurando”.

(selected excerpts from interview)

WHO IS SHE?

”Privately, not professionally, I am quite normal. (…)And I would wish to be, just like Janusz. L. Wiśniewski, as good human being, as my dog perceives me to be.”

Money

When I was young, I thought that money is most important… Now, I am certain of that. (…)

Self-detachment

The second, most important after money thing in life according to me is self-detachment. And towards life, too. Since it’s a well-known fact, how it ends. All is transient, and certain is just death. Is it worth, then, to get killed to achieve this or that? And treat everything so dead serious?

I am always repeating, that the one thing that is worth is to laugh your wits out. As my dear Woody Allen says: “Every tragedy can make a comedy”.

Ordinary day

Most of the time, it’s hard. Or at least bad. And according to me, there are at least two days, which we should not be concerned with – it’s yesterday and tomorrow. Since, what is past, is past, and whatever is to be, will be. It is here and now that counts. Therefore, I make no plans.

The older I get, the more convinced I become that everything depends on everything. I am not that conceited to think that everything depends on me. What shall be, shall be. We shall wait and see.

Live and let live other people

The saying is not mine, but good one, nevertheless. But let’s be serious. I hate to judge people, preach, educate, and change them. Either I accept someone just the way he is, or else, I get out of his way. And I am counting on the same attitude of others with respect to me. Life would be nicer that way.

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