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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