Imelda Marcos

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

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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

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

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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

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

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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

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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.

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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

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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.

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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

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Quotes by Imelda Marcos