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Bad choices make good stories.

I didn't even like Mick Jagger.

I've had such an exciting life.

It takes two to destroy a marriage.

I just want to find my individuality.

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

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

I've had enough of being public property.

I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

I have five of the most beautiful children.

Everyone wants a loving, equal relationship.

I have had quite the grand, interesting life.

My life for so many years was a reality show.

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.

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

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

If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.

I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

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

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.

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

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

I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.

The best luxury in the world isn't a diamond ring or a nice house - well, it could be - but it's privacy.

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

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.

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

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

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

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

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