Margaret Trudeau Quotes

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Margaret Trudeau

Profession : Author

Birth : September 10, 1948

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

Margaret Trudeau

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

Margaret Trudeau

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

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Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

Margaret Trudeau

Everyone wants a loving, equal relationship.

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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.

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I feel very confident and positive about my life.

Margaret Trudeau

I'm no political pundit.

Margaret Trudeau

Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.

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For me, because I'm a mental health advocate, I want everyone to be the healthiest they can be.

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When you're mentally ill, sometimes you're so self-involved that you forget how much you're hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don't understand that you've got to get help.

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I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

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I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

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I have five of the most beautiful children.

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I love the life I've had.

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Bad choices make good stories.

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I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and not be invaded by the outside.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

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