Their eyes were watching God Quotation Response

"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. Then they act and do things accordingly."

This quotation is stating a difference in the way men and women act and think. Men will keep on following or chasing something until they fail or know that there going to fail. The death by time is what makes the men fail in this example in the story. Women forget everything thats unimportant and they want to forget, and they remember all the important things or the things they want to remember. They control their minds to what the want and dont want to forget. This is how the book states women and men think differently.