Author Profile
Margaret Trudeau
1948 • Canadian • Author
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesI know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.— Margaret Trudeau
I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.— Margaret Trudeau
I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.— 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 don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.— 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 have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.— Margaret Trudeau
The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.— Margaret Trudeau
There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.— Margaret Trudeau
I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.— Margaret Trudeau