Margaret Trudeau Quotes

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Margaret Trudeau

Profession : Author

Birth : September 10, 1948

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

We don't help people mourn in our society.

Margaret Trudeau

Every day is wonderful for me.

Margaret Trudeau

My life for so many years was a reality show.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

Margaret Trudeau

I have had quite the grand, interesting life.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

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?

Margaret Trudeau

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau

I've had such an exciting life.

Margaret Trudeau

I think we can choose to be happy in our lives.

Margaret Trudeau

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

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I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.

Margaret Trudeau

The best luxury in the world isn't a diamond ring or a nice house - well, it could be - but it's privacy.

Margaret Trudeau

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.

Margaret Trudeau