Words matter. These are the best Lisa Brennan-Jobs Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.
I tried to find a social niche at Harvard – a group, my group – but I was unsuccessful.
At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.
My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.
My father was rich and renowned, and later – as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years – I saw another, more glamorous world.
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.
Looking at font serifs is fun.
To talk of food is to talk of mothers, at least for me.
Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn’t help.
You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.
Sometimes it’s nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.
In literature there was always an epiphany – a tingling moment, sometimes buried – the pearl around which the whole work formed.
I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn’t be.
I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.
In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn’t have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.
I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren’t even allowed outside, and so they cluck-walk packed tight in a dim lit barn. But organic farms use fewer chemicals.
Money can be detrimental for kids.
When I was in elementary school, I watched ‘Cinema Paradiso’ 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.
It’s not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.
By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.
Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.
I don’t like catching myself in the mirror because it’s like, ‘Oh, self.’
We all have complexity in our lives.
