TV Interviewer: You suggest in your novel that women are all masochists, Mr. Luke. Is that your personal experience?
Sam Luke: I present women as I know them to be. The success of Women Weeping would suggest that I'm right.
TV Interviewer: But surely at this point in time when women are gaining leading positions in so many areas...
Sam Luke: That doesn't affect the positions they take up in the sex war. In that ongoing action, women are still a weaker sex who long to be dominated by men.
TV Interviewer: Isn't that a rather old fashioned view?
Sam Luke: Rather old fashioned species. Women have been the weaker since the beginning of our existence. Are you suggesting that a few years of voting and unisex have fundamentally changed all? I don't agree. You may wear well-tailored suits and smoke cigars, but at heart, you're still the same, eminently crushable creatures you've always been.