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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."

Chapters:
00:00 Why Marilyn Monroe has continued to stay an icon
01:09 Steinem's essay on Monroe for Ms. Magazine
02:43 Grappling with feelings of embarrassment towards Monroe
03:31 Monroe was rewarded for creating an "artificial self"
05:17 How women are co-conscious of the role they play in their artificiality
07:07 How other people profited off Monroe's success
08:02 The parallels and differences between Monroe and Madonna
09:18 Understanding your worth as a child
09:52 How the women's movement helped women become mother figures to each other

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Now in its 36th season on PBS, American Masters was recently nominated for an IDA Award, two Primetime Emmy® Awards and was awarded two News & Documentary Emmys. The series illuminates the lives and creative journeys of our nation’s most enduring artistic giants—those who have left an indelible impression on our cultural landscape—through compelling, unvarnished stories. Setting the standard for documentary film profiles, the series has earned widespread critical acclaim and 28 Emmy Awards—including 10 for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series and five for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special—14 Peabodys, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, an Oscar, and many other honors. To further explore the lives and works of more than 250 masters past and present, the American Masters website offers full episodes, film outtakes, filmmaker interviews, the podcast American Masters: Creative Spark, educational resources, digital original series and more. The series is a production of The WNET Group.