I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?
I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.
It's hard because it doesn't matter what you do, most people still identify me as Undertaker's wife.
No black person married to a white person can speak for me!
It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You're suddenly somebody's wife. And you're like, 'Oh, I'm half of a couple now. I've lost me.'
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
