the life of women

i'm at this point where i want to reread old, favorite stories rather than explore new ones. i just finished arundhati roy's "The God of Small Things" again, enoying it perhaps more this time than the previous. next on the list, a book i've had a real hankering for re-reading, is zora neale hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"....if only just to extend the *favorite books with "God" in the title* streak.

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing, until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. They then act and do things accordingly."

Zora Neale Hurston
"Their Eyes Were Watching God"