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" I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. "

" They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. "

" We practically own everything in the Philippines. "

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

" The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. "

" I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. "

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

" I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. "

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

" Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. "

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

" You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda. "

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

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

" Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. "

" The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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