Katherine Clark

thumb|Katherine Clark in 2018 Katherine Marlea Clark (born 17 July, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. She has been House Minority Whip since 2023 and was Assistant House Democratic Leader (known as the "Assistant Speaker") from 2021 to 2023. Her district includes many of Boston's northern and western suburbs, such as Medford, Framingham, Woburn, Waltham, and her home city of Revere. Clark was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011 and the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013. Quotes But when The Prince of Tides came out, thank God she was dead. I’m not sure I would have had the guts to publish that with her still alive. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark Why do they not teach you that time is a fingersnap and an eyeblink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? PAT CONROY, My Losing Season https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark The two most dangerous words in the English language are ‘like’ and ‘as.’ If you do not have something interesting to say after you write down those two words, cross them out, because you’ve entered into the country of cliché. Make sure you have something to say that is new or fresh or in a different way; otherwise, leave them alone. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark With poetry, you take the stock and boil it down to where it’s a glaze. It is the elixir of language https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark They were simply the moanings of sperm cells locked away too long in scrotums https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark My father confused me about what it meant to become a man. From an early age, I knew I didn’t want to be anything like the man he was. PAT CONROY, My Reading Life https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark When you’ve got a father who beats you, as a kid you think it’s your fault. You develop a self-destructive belief that you’re no good. The conflict Pat’s always had is whether he’s worth anything or worth nothing. MARION O’NEILL, Ph.D., ABPP, clinical psychologist https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101567.Katherine Clark External links Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians Category:Politicians from Massachusetts Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Women in law Category:Women born in the 1970s