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.”

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

“Every life is extraordinary.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.”

“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.”

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

“I didn't even like Mick Jagger.”

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

“I have had quite the grand, interesting life.”

“I just want to find my individuality.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“My life for so many years was a reality show.”

“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.”