"I had to be fashionable. I had to be beautiful. I had to be Imelda."

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

"I am not afraid of death. I am not afraid of the truth. I am not afraid of anything."

"My husband was a genius. He was a visionary. He transformed our country."

"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."