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Imelda Romualdez Marcos: beauty queen, tyrant and shoe fetishist!

The following quips come from The Wit and Wisdom of Imelda Marcos, where you can discover many interesting and outrageous facts about the lady herself...

The media claimed she owned 3,000 pairs of shoes, (size eight and a half),one of which was a pair of plastic disco sandals with three inch high flashing battery operated heels.

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty." -- 1987

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back." -- November 1996

Shopping techniques: If something struck her fancy - shoes - she'd buy two or three dozen of the same design and end up not wearing them anyway.

"What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love." -- Associated Press article, in The Eye, November 1997

"I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses."

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