I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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.
People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it’s doable.
I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.
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.
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Doesn’t the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
I am beyond logic and rationality.
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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.
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.