“There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-...” — Margaret Trudeau Quote

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

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

“Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.”

“I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.”

“In times of difficulty, you always have to try to find the positive side.”