102 Quotes by Margaret Trudeau

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

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.

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 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.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

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.