Kirsten Powers

It was many years until I started meeting other people who were like me: very progressive-minded politically but also very conservative theologically.

Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.

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.'

Rather than teach women how to negotiate with sexists or shrink themselves down to 'likeable' size, perhaps the solution would be for employers to stop being sexist. In the meantime, women will continue to be blamed for their lower salaries.

Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.

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.

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them.

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.

Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.

I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democratic politics in New York, so that's what we sort of bonded over - that was our religion, to a certain extent.

I sometimes hear Christians talk about how terrible life must be for atheists. But our lives were not terrible. Life actually seemed pretty wonderful, filled with opportunity and good conversation and privilege.