madwoman

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‘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

And that is so much more credible in a fictional story than the woman who is just falling apart, and is the madwoman in the attic.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2021

I nod my head like a madwoman and pretend he didn’t say that second half.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy