Imelda Marcos: The hilarious world of the icon of excess!!!

"I don't have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”

“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”

“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
“People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?”
“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 think that's a very kinky issue with the panties and bras. That's the thing that they will display: shoes, panties and bras.”

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

“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.”

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

“I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.”

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

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

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

“We practically own everything in the Philippines.”

“I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.”

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

“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.”