102 Quotes by Margaret Trudeau

I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel.

It takes two to destroy a marriage.

I can’t be a rose in any man’s lapel.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, 'Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?'

Bad choices make good stories.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

I was a quicksilver girl who saw every leaf on every tree. For me, there was no middle ground between sinking and flying, and once I was into my early adult years, my roller coaster got wilder and faster: I seemed to rise and fall with the same reckless velocity.