A biography for Kirsten Powershasn’t been written yet.
“It was many years until I started meeting other people who were like me: very progressive-minded politically but also very conservative theologically.”
“Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.”
“After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998.”
“I know I deal with it, I'm sure a lot of other people deal with it: you have that little funny dig you want to give on Twitter or you want to put in your column. Don't do it. it always undermines your argument.”
“Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.”
“I'm a registered Democrat, I've always been a registered Democrat, only ever voted for a Democrats.”
“Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.”
“Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.”
“Domestic policy, foreign policy, I tend to come down more on the liberal side.”
“Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.”
“For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.”
“Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders do.”
“While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.”
“I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways and they're attached to white men who are benefiting from the system that was created by them, for them, and their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefiting from the system and so they are also benefiting.”
“Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.”
“Whereas Hillary is continually reinventing herself and her campaign, throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, Sanders appears to be driven by core values. He's running because he wants to upend a broken system. She's running because she thinks it's her turn.”
“If conservatives are so concerned about black-on-black crime, it is concerning the only time I hear them talking about it is when they want to stick it to the black community.”
“I had a lot of ideas about conservatives and then I got to Fox and just, I was like, 'Oh, they're not all evil and stupid.'”
“Women should be able to 'friend' a married - or unmarried - congressman on Facebook or follow him on Twitter without fear of being the recipient of lewd talk or behavior.”
“Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.”