I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

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

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

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

I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.

I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I'll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau's wife and the mother of our three children - but I also want to be a working photographer.

Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

I was a quicksilver girl who saw every leaf on every tree. For me, there was no middle ground between sinking and flying, and once I was into my early adult years, my roller coaster got wilder and faster: I seemed to rise and fall with the same reckless velocity.

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

I certainly don't have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.

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

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

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

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

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

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.

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

I've had enough of being public property.

Everywhere I go, particularly when there's people who know me or recognize me, I get the warmest hugs and happiest sighs full of hope and full of relief.

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.