"As far as I can remember the existence of injustice has hurt my soul as if a nail was being driven into it. From every period of my life I retain the memory of some injustice tormenting me and tearing me apart." (Chapter 1, pg. 5)

"She seemed a personification of innocence and that is really what she was, very pure inside ...." (Chapter 2, pg.22)

"She had been in Buenos Aires for six years, she was twenty-three and she felt, or wanted to feel, like a star." (Chapter 2, pg. 27)

"He said absolutely nothing to her, he never questioned her at all and from that day Evita stayed with him." (Chapter 3, pg. 34)

"But it was the last film she ever appeared in, for before it could be premiered, her acting career - since 1935 she had appeared in twenty plays, five movies and at least twenty-six soap operas - was swallowed up in...