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{{Quote|text=By reflecting on the whole account found in {{Bible quote|version=NABRE|ref=Gen 2:18-25}}, and by interpreting it in light of the truth about the image and likeness of God (cf. {{Bible quote|version=NABRE|ref=Gen 1:26-27}}), we can ''understand'' even ''more fully what constitutes the personal character'' of the human being, thanks to which both man and woman are like God. For every individual is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a rational and free creature capable of knowing God and loving him. Moreover, we read that man cannot exist "alone" (cf. {{Bible quote|version=NABRE|ref=Gen 2:18}}); he can exist only as a "unity of the two", and therefore ''in relation to another human person''. It is a question here of a mutual relationship: man to woman and woman to man. Being a person in the image and likeness of God thus also involves existing in a relationship, in relation to the other "I". This is a prelude to the definitive self-revelation of the Triune God: a living unity in the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.|author=Pope John Paul II|title=Mulieris Dignitatem, 7|source=http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19880815_mulieris-dignitatem.html}}