48 Margaret Trudeau Quotes for You to Enjoy

Margaret Trudeau

Canadian Author

Born: Sep 10, 1948

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I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness. Margaret Trudeau

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You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery. Margaret Trudeau

I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression where I just wanted to retreat and pull the covers over my head and weep. My mother and I, we went to a psychiatrist, and he just patted me on the head and told me I had baby blues, which was not helpful, obviously. Margaret Trudeau

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Bad choices make good stories. Margaret Trudeau

Good Bad Bad Choices Good Stories Make Stories Choices

I've had so many rich, rich, beautiful things happen to me in my life because I do have energy, and I do reach out, and I stretch my eyes. Margaret Trudeau

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

Give Most Still Lot Contribute Us

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

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Everyone wants a loving, equal relationship. Margaret Trudeau

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You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you're not alone. Margaret Trudeau

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