尽管有大量证据表明她和已故的丈夫费迪南德·马科斯（Ferdinand Marcos）对大规模死亡、贫困、苦难和政府运转失常负有直接责任，但她所忍受的唯一一次真正的失望就是失掉了她参加的上一次总统选举。
Despite massive evidence of the widespread death, poverty, suffering, and dysfunction she and her late husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, inflicted on the Philippines, the only real disappointment she has subsequently endured has been losing the last presidential election she was allowed to contest.