Quotes from Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

I don't want my kids to be raised thinking they'll get into a park and people applaud.

I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.

I think people have this perception of the life that I lead, or that we lead, of drivers, the high life. It's not that.

When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson.

The more we reach out and become vulnerable and share our stories, the more people we will meet that will unite and help us to achieve more equality.

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

We're lucky we live in Canada. If we were living in the United States I'm sure it would be different - all the media attention that we would get in the private part of our lives.

Women's empowerment for me means knowing your rights, having the facts, knowing the truth about what is happening out there, here in our own country and the condition of women throughout the world.

Justin's real weakness is, he's very much in his head. He intellectualizes a lot.

The barriers for women across the world are different, depending on which kind of political system you live under.

We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught to self-hate; we are taught to doubt. Our culture doesn't help us recognize ourselves as amazing beings without changing ourselves.

As a consumer and a mom, I've always been interested in local products.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other... We are human creatures, meant to be linked... So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

I don't weigh myself. I don't have a scale in the house.

Whatever things you go through, you stay true to who you are and your core values.

I'd love to be everywhere but I can't. I have three children and a husband who is prime minister. I need help. I need a team to help me serve the people.

I feel privileged with what I have... There's so much gratitude.

Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.

I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure or media or television.

When it comes to having conversations with girls what I hear from them is that there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, perform a certain way, and there are very mixed messages. We are telling them, 'Be yourself, be true to who you are,' but what does that mean in a society of comparison, competition, and individualism?

Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.