madwoman

Example Sentences

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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

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

Bertha is not a madwoman, she is an angry woman who we, her readers, have been calling psycho for years.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2021

“Every night in the Tower,” the madwoman said, “you went from cell to cell, looking for sorrow. And when I learned to bottle mine up, to lock it away, you would snarl and howl.”

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill