102 Quotes by Margaret Trudeau

I know, as a mother, it hurts you very much to see your children suffer.

I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

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 certainly don't have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.

I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is, almost from birth, and then guide them to fulfill their best potential.