You have to reach out and help other people. The support groups helped each other, but they also reached outside the corporation to the black community at large. Helping in the community is an obligation. Jones agrees in practice as well as principle. Certainly there are some women who can do it all, but I think there is a lot of pressure to try and do everything.
Women have to learn how to say 'No,' because they have responsibilities for children, for parents.
That's not the way it should be, but that's the reality. And the other thing that's difficult for African Americans, both women and men, is that when you are perceived as a role model, you're often asked to be the Lone Ranger and do a lot of things your white male counterpart won't be asked to do. I think it's important to give back to our communities and our families, but I think you have to be careful of all the demands. What happens is these young people are tied to the firm they start with. They can't move anywhere else because they don't have the fundamentals.