Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
Source: Feminine Psychology, The Flight from Womanhood, 1926.
-- Karen Horney, (Sep 16 1885-1952), US psychoanalyst, writer; She funded the American Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1941.