Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.

I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.

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 feel very confident and positive about my life.

Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.

For me, because I'm a mental health advocate, I want everyone to be the healthiest they can be.

When you're mentally ill, sometimes you're so self-involved that you forget how much you're hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don't understand that you've got to get help.

I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

I have five of the most beautiful children.

I love the life I've had.

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

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 can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

Every day is wonderful for me.

My life for so many years was a reality show.

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

I have had quite the grand, interesting life.

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.

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.

I was pregnant and nursing most of the years I was at 24 Sussex. I was ill-prepared and hardly even knew my husband, let alone how I was supposed to fit into this world that was very alien to me.

My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation. He has put no restrictions on me. His father couldn't. Why should he try?

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

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.

I've had such an exciting life.

I think we can choose to be happy in our lives.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

You have got to give. There is no other reason to be on the planet.

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

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.

With my children, balance was everything: being not just a workaholic, not only studying but taking time to renew and restore yourself and taking time to pay attention to your brain health and not assume, as we all do, that our brains are perfect.

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.

I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.

I tell the children I want everyone to love the life that they're in, to be who they are... and make it the best life they can.

Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.

Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.

I have a lot of lovely things in my life that I wasn't able to have before I got healed from my imbalanced life.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call normal. I say that must be when I am buying groceries. Or vacuuming.

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

I think I devoted my life to Pierre Trudeau and our beautiful children.

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

Every life is extraordinary.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.

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.