“She was born in the Objective case.”

“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.”

“In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.”

“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.”

“...to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.”

“She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value.”