When Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote the "first feminist anthem"

Season 36 Episode 6

About the Episode

"I always wanna be offering people stuff that they won't get somewhere else," says Sainte-Marie of the song "Until It's Time For You To Go," written from a woman's perspective allowing her lover to leave. Writer Andrea Warner calls the song "the actual first feminist anthem."

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