"There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish." -Eva referring to the oligarchy, or upperclass.



"When you represent a state you cannot be scared" -Eva Peron



"In government, one actress is enough" -Eva Peron



"We all have within us a gallery of personalities, and one of them ends up taking the driver's seat. In Evita the queen cohabited with more impoverished personalities, but the queen was there nonetheless; it always had been. If Peron guaranteed her victory, it is not he who conceived it." -Alicia Dujovne Ortiz on Evita.



"More than political action, the woman's movement needs to carry out social action. Precisely because social action is something which we women carry in our blood." -Eva Peron



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



"Evita had the capacity to give before anything was asked of her....she was incredibly beautiful but no one could ever treat her as if she was a woman. It was as if she was a different being, untouchable, not cold in the least, but without any sexual presence whatsoever...I have never met anyone else who resembled her." -Guillermo de Prisco, Union official and devoted "Evitista"



"There were human beings in that room with dirty clothes and they smelt very bad. Evita would place her fingers into their suppurating wounds for she was able to see the pain of all these people and feel it herself. She could touch the most terrible things with a Christian attitude that amazed me, kissing and letting herself be kissed. There was a girl whose lip was half eaten away by syphilis and when I saw that Evita was about to kiss her and tried to stop her, she said to me, 'Do you know what it will mean when I kiss her?' " -Jose Maria Castineira de Dios, young Catholic poet who had watched Evita at work.



"Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people." -Eva Peron



"The evil of this time and especially of this country is the existence of all these idiots, and you know that an idiot is worse than a viliian." -Juan Peron, in a letter he wrote to Evita after being held prisoner.



"...there was a woman of fragile appearence, but with a strong voice, with long blonde hair falling loose to her back and fevered eyes. She said her name was Eva Duarte, that she acted on the radio and that she wanted to help the people of San Juan. I looked at her and felt overcome by her words; I was quite subdued by the force of her voice and her look. Eva was pale but when she spoke her face seemed to catch fire. Her hands were reddened with tension, her fingers knit tightly together, she was a mass of nerves." -Juan Peron, on first meeting Evita.



"Charity humiliates and social aid dignifies and stimulates. Charity is given discreetly; social aid rationally. Charity prolongs the situation; social aid solves it....Charity is the generosity of the fortunate; social aid remedies social inequalities. Charity seperates the wealthy from the poor; social aid raises the needy to the level of the well to do." -Eva's explantation of why her Fundacion was for social aid and not charity.



"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it." Eva, on why she never kept records for her Fundacion.



"If we had done for the workers a tiny fraction of what Evita did, there never would have been a Peron and she would still be a bad actress." -One of Eva's more intelligent enemies commenting on the lack of aid from the oligarchy to the poor.



"I spend every hour of the day looking after the needs of the descamisados to show them that here, in the Argentine Republic...the gulf which had seperated the people from the government no longer exists." -Eva Peron



"Time is my greatest enemy." -Eva's favorite saying. Sadly, this saying, was all to true.