Many persons cannot understand the circumstances which have made my life what it is.

I myself have often pondered on all this that is now my life.

Some of my contemporaries attribute it all to chance-that strange and inexplicable thing that does not explain anything, anyway.

No. It is not chance that has brought me to this position, to this life I lead.

Obviously it would all be absurd if my sharpest-tongued critics were right when they say thoughtlessly that I, "a superficial woman, uninstructed, common, unacquainted with the interests of her country, remote from the sorrows of her people, indifferent to social justice and with nothing serious in her head, suddenly became a fanatic in the struggle for the cause of the people, and making that cause hers, decided to live a life of incomprehensible sacrifice."

I would like to make myself clear about this

That is why I have decided to write these notes.

But I do not do so to contradict anyone or to prove anyone wrong.

Rather I would wish my fellow citizens, men and women, to know how I feel and think.

I want them to share the great things I experience in my heart.

Surely many of the things I shall say here are teachings I received freely from Perón and which I have not the right to keep secret.