Rick Springfield Quotes
I've always treated women well.
Springfield, Rick. Late, Late at Night: A Memoir. Touchstone, 2010.
The number of women who studied Physics and sophisticated sciences in Germany at the time were few and far between. Ironically, Einstein married one of the few. However, the marriage failed for many reasons and his subsequent marriage was not to a scientist. Other conversations with him in later years revealed that his belief was that women were constitutionally unsuited to creative, theoretical science—Einstein’s type of science was almost purely abstract and mathematical. See {588596}.
Actually, shortly thereafter some women in Egypt were allowed to be judges, but were not allowed to handle serious criminal cases on the grounds that women could not be hard enough to impose heavy punishment like the death penalty.
See {618590} for an example of the kinds of issues which motivated her statement.
She was the First Lady, who in many ways was also one of the nation’s leading feminists. Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton were also First Ladies who supported key feminist position but ER was 30 years ahead of them—a time when conservatives and sexists viewed her as a dangerous radical. For example, see {585211}.
Golden was one of the leading theater producers of the 1920s and 1930s. There is even a theater on Broadway named after him. This statement reflects a common attitude of the late 1930s of even many educated people. A few like Eleanor Roosevelt saw such a statement for what it was—ridiculous and responded publicly – {636785} . Note that for many years, this was a self-fulfilling statement. Producers like Golden thought women could not be great playwrights and therefore would never produce a play authored by a woman. Then others would use the fact that there were no even good plays that were written by female authors as evidence of the act that women could not be great playwrights.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe, known professionally as Rick Springfield, is an Australian musician and actor. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, then started his solo career with his debut single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia in mid-1972, when he moved to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the U.S., for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. He followed with four more top 10 U.S. hits: "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart", and "Love Somebody". Springfield's two U.S. top 10 albums are Working Class Dog (1981) and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982).
