A biography for Lisa Brennan-Jobshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you save them for later until you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant.”
“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.”
“To talk of food is to talk of mothers, at least for me.”
“I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.”
“We all have complexity in our lives.”
“Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.”
“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.”
“In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.”
“I tried to find a social niche at Harvard - a group, my group - but I was unsuccessful.”
“By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.”
“I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.”
“In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.”
“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.”
“I know that it can be really difficult to read about your own life... in someone else's words.”
“I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'”
“Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.”
“Money can be detrimental for kids.”
“My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.”