A biography for Margaret Trudeauhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.”
“I think we can choose to be happy in our lives.”
“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.”
“I have five of the most beautiful children.”
“I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.”
“I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.”
“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.”
“Everywhere I go, particularly when there's people who know me or recognize me, I get the warmest hugs and happiest sighs full of hope and full of relief.”
“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.”
“We don't help people mourn in our society.”
“I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.”
“I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.”
“I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.”
“I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'”
“Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.”
“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.”
“I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.”
“I've had enough of being public property.”