madwoman
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As it turns out, Nina isn’t the unhinged madwoman she’s perceived to be.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
‘Mommie Dearest’ Mimosa Mother’s Day’ Faye Dunaway plays screen legend Joan Crawford as a wire hanger-wielding madwoman in this campy 1981 bio-drama based on the scandalous tell-all by Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022
Biographer Judith Thurman, writing in the New Yorker in 2001, called Dr. Milford’s biography “one of the big literary events of the feminist new wave — the first liberation of a madwoman from the attic.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
"My sister, my hilarious, charming, perfect sister: now other. The irate madwoman on the train," Leddy says.
From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2022
He thought of the madwoman in the Tower.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Having evaded 12 homicidal masked madmen, madwomen, mad-cousins and mad-siblings, Sidney is now a married mother of three who prefers the last name Evans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
There are carefree black girls, madwomen, high-powered professional divas, vulnerable artists and, yes, awkward black girls.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
Or: “Don’t start making comparisons with madwomen in history. You are not one of them.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2014
And in some strange way, their movies do honor to their madwomen by respecting the integrity of their delusions.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2011
Certainly," said the King; "that is, if the incognita be really entitled to the honour.—It may be as well to inquire her title—there are more madwomen abroad than the Duchess of Newcastle.
From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir
