Margaret Trudeau Quotes

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Margaret Trudeau

Profession : Author

Birth : September 10, 1948

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.

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You have got to give. There is no other reason to be on the planet.

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I know, as a mother, it hurts you very much to see your children suffer.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

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I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.

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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.

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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.

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The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

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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.

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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.

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I think I devoted my life to Pierre Trudeau and our beautiful children.

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Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

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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.

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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.

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