madwoman
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“There’s a fine line between madwoman and dreamer,” Maxine will observe, from the vantage of that line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
"My sister, my hilarious, charming, perfect sister: now other. The irate madwoman on the train," Leddy says.
From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2022
Is Frankie right to be suspicious or is she simply becoming more and more of the madwoman in the palazzo?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2021
That is some next-level "madwoman in the attic, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, put this on your feminist literature curriculum" testimony right there.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2019
And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees.
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
But it would still make sense to link thematically related works into mini-festivals that encourage binge-watching, like a “Lulu”-versus-“Lucia” showdown of madwomen.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2016
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
My belief is that she was either one of those Nihilist madwomen, or else the devil himself in a new shape.
From Sunrise by William Black
