@pbsamericanmasters: Gloria Steinem on why modern women relate to Marilyn Monroe On February 21, 2006, Gloria Steinem spoke about Marilyn Monroe’s lasting legacy, what she represented to women and men, and how the advent of the women’s movement could have provided her the support she desperately needed. “What the women’s movement has done is to allow women to become each other’s mothers and to support and model and hope and praise and love each other enough so that we can begin to repair the early damage.” Interview conducted by Gail Levin, director of American Masters—Marilyn Monroe: Still Life (2006). #marilynmonroe