Imelda Marcos

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

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

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

“They will use my name and my shoe collection to malign me and my family.”

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

“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'm a slave to beauty.”

“Perception is real, and the truth is not.”

“I am my little people's star and slave. When I am out among them, I am the most beautiful thing they have ever seen.”

“We are in a world of bigger, better, and faster.”

“I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was working 19 hours a day.”

“Beauty is my passion. It's my obsession. It's my religion.”