Quotes from Margaret Trudeau

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and not be invaded by the outside.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.

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.

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

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.

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.

I've had such an exciting life.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.