“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“the mainspring of creativity appears to be… man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.” (Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person)

“let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So, God created humankind in his image (Genesis 27).”

“So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.” -Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” (Simone De Beauvoir, the second sex)

On a given finite straight line to construct an equilateral triangle," (Euclid, Book 1)