madwoman
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madwomen
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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
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
Too soon a grieving one, wearing rags like a madwoman.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
Or: “Don’t start making comparisons with madwomen in history. You are not one of them.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2014
You can't go out to dine unless some madwoman drags you away from your coffee to the auction table, where other madmen and madwomen scowl at you all the evening over their cards.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
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