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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.Collection: Margaret
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.Collection: Margaret
When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.Collection: Margaret
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.Collection: Margaret
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.Collection: Margaret
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.Collection: Margaret
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.Collection: Margaret
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.Collection: Margaret
The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.Collection: Margaret
I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.Collection: Margaret
We don't help people mourn in our society.Collection: Margaret
Every day is wonderful for me.Collection: Margaret
My life for so many years was a reality show.Collection: Margaret
Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.Collection: Margaret
I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.Collection: Margaret
I have had quite the grand, interesting life.Collection: Margaret
I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.Collection: Margaret
You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you're not alone.Collection: Margaret
I was pregnant and nursing most of the years I was at 24 Sussex. I was ill-prepared and hardly even knew my husband, let alone how I was supposed to fit into this world that was very alien to me.Collection: Margaret
My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation. He has put no restrictions on me. His father couldn't. Why should he try?Collection: Margaret
Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.Collection: Margaret
I've had so many rich, rich, beautiful things happen to me in my life because I do have energy, and I do reach out, and I stretch my eyes.Collection: Margaret
I've had such an exciting life.Collection: Margaret
I think we can choose to be happy in our lives.Collection: Margaret
I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.Collection: Margaret
The best luxury in the world isn't a diamond ring or a nice house - well, it could be - but it's privacy.Collection: Margaret
I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.Collection: Margaret
I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.Collection: Margaret
I know, as a mother, it hurts you very much to see your children suffer.Collection: Margaret
When we have healthy children, we have a healthy community. They can learn. They can play. They can be part of the future. They can help you all do very well and prosper instead of suffering.Collection: Margaret
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression where I just wanted to retreat and pull the covers over my head and weep. My mother and I, we went to a psychiatrist, and he just patted me on the head and told me I had baby blues, which was not helpful, obviously.Collection: Margaret
The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.Collection: Margaret
With my children, balance was everything: being not just a workaholic, not only studying but taking time to renew and restore yourself and taking time to pay attention to your brain health and not assume, as we all do, that our brains are perfect.Collection: Margaret
The secret is to nip any mental disorder in the bud. As soon as you're not feeling yourself, reach out and get some help because you can quickly get better. If you get stuck in it, it's so hard to get out.Collection: Margaret
I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.Collection: Margaret
I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.Collection: Margaret
I tell the children I want everyone to love the life that they're in, to be who they are... and make it the best life they can.Collection: Margaret
Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.Collection: Margaret
Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.Collection: Margaret
I have a lot of lovely things in my life that I wasn't able to have before I got healed from my imbalanced life.Collection: Margaret
Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call normal. I say that must be when I am buying groceries. Or vacuuming.Collection: Margaret
There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.Collection: Margaret
I think I devoted my life to Pierre Trudeau and our beautiful children.Collection: Margaret
Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.Collection: Margaret
Every life is extraordinary.Collection: Margaret
My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.Collection: Margaret
I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.Collection: Margaret
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.Collection: Margaret
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.Collection: Margaret