I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.
I've had enough of being public property.
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.
Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.
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.
I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.
I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.
There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.
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.
I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.
I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.
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 can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
I feel very confident and positive about my life.
Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.
For me, because I'm a mental health advocate, I want everyone to be the healthiest they can be.
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.
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 don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.
I have five of the most beautiful children.
