It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.' — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I know that it can be really difficult to read about your own life... in someone else's words. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Books Copy Share Image
When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Cinema Copy Share Image
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… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy.… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Alone Copy Share Image
I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Birth Copy Share Image
My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Being Copy Share Image
Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Ballet Copy Share Image
I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren't… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Alive Copy Share Image
Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I tried to find a social niche at Harvard - a group, my group - but I was unsuccessful. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Books Copy Share Image
