“Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic a...” — Natalie Babbitt Quote

“Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.”

“My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.”

“I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.”

“It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.”

“I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.”

“There's no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life, and high school graduation you only do once.”