The women in her family are an unusually strong source of influence and pride. Even the traditionally masculine passing down of names exists. A'Lelia Perry Bundles' mom was A'Lelia Mae Perry Bundles, whose mother was Mae Walker Perry. Her mother, A'Lelia Walker, was Madam C.J. Walker's daughter. While the name association makes the female bond concrete, Bundles' respect for her fellow woman is not limited to blood ties.
Women help women.
Women make life better for women. At her fifth college reunion at Harvard and Radcliffe College, she realized the connection firsthand. I was living in Houston, and I was feeling really removed and isolated from what was familiar to me. My mother had died a few years earlier, and for several years after her death I didn't really understand that I was grieving. I didn't know what you go through.