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
In “Jane Eyre,” the heroine enters a home with a madwoman whose husband has locked her in the attic; Rose is soon troubled by other malevolent forces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
The madwoman skidded to a halt at the wall, letting Antain and Luna tumble from her back.
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
He spoke for more than an hour, and when he was done his hearers were as madmen and madwomen.
From The Thunders of Silence by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
