Quotes from Evita Peron

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Time is my greatest enemy.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

Time is my greatest enemy.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I will return and I will be a million.

I will come again, and I will be millions.

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

Suffer little children and come unto me.