Margaret Trudeau
I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.Collection: Anniversary
I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.Collection: Marriage
You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.Collection: Health
We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, 'Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?'
Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.
I didn't even like Mick Jagger.
I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.
I was a quicksilver girl who saw every leaf on every tree. For me, there was no middle ground between sinking and flying, and once I was into my early adult years, my roller coaster got wilder and faster: I seemed to rise and fall with the same reckless velocity.
I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I'll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau's wife and the mother of our three children - but I also want to be a working photographer.
I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.
I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.
You have got to give. There is no other reason to be on the planet.
I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.
Bad choices make good stories.
I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.
I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.
I was a late bloomer on the career front.
I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.
The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.
I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is, almost from birth, and then guide them to fulfill their best potential.
Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.
A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.
I certainly don't have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.
Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.
I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.
I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'
I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.
I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.
I just want to find my individuality.
I've had enough of being public property.
Everywhere I go, particularly when there's people who know me or recognize me, I get the warmest hugs and happiest sighs full of hope and full of relief.
Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.
I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.
I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.
I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.
There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.
The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.
I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.
I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.
I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.
Politics is an ugly and thankless role.
I tried during the 1974 campaign to show my husband not as the aloof intellectual people think he is, but the warm, passionate man I know. But the day after the election - after I'd worked so hard - I was put back on the shelf. I was devastated.
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
Everyone wants a loving, equal relationship.
I tend to keep the press at a distance, you know, and I don't really react to what they say. I react to what I feel more.
I feel very confident and positive about my life.