"founding mother" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Johnnetta B. Cole, All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind",
          "text": "She (Audrey Lorde) is a member of the founding collective of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and a founding mother of SISA, Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa.",
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          "text": "There could even be a case made for treating Jane Harrison as a founding mother of social science (Beard, 2000).",
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          "ref": "2020 October 21, Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, Wipf and Stock Publishers",
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          "establish",
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          "started",
          "start#Verb"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "woman who founded something",
          "word": "perustaja"
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          "sense": "woman who founded something",
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          "word": "mère fondatrice"
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "woman who founded something",
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          "word": "nai fundadora"
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          "roman": "yāyñaḥptanpadh",
          "sense": "woman who founded something",
          "word": "ယာဲညးပ္တန်ပဒှ်"
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          "sense": "woman who founded something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "mère fondatrice"
    },
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      "sense": "woman who founded something",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "woman who founded something",
      "word": "ယာဲညးပ္တန်ပဒှ်"
    },
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