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Imelda Marcos
July 1, 1930 -
Category: Celebrity

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

   

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

   

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

   

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

   

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

   

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

   

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

   

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

   

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

   

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

   

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

   

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

   

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

   

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

   

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

   

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

   

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

   

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

   

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

   

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

   

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