Margaret Trudeau Quotes

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Margaret Trudeau

Profession : Author

Birth : September 10, 1948

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.

Margaret Trudeau

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

Margaret Trudeau

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?'

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

Margaret Trudeau

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

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I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

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I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.

Margaret Trudeau

I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.

Margaret Trudeau

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

Every life is extraordinary.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

I didn't even like Mick Jagger.

Margaret Trudeau