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She is a madwoman on the dance floor.
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Firestone’s transformation from an activist who had bravely and lucidly critiqued her world into a suffering madwoman who could not understand it or function in it has haunted the second wave.
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Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
Manhunt has offered suggestion after suggestion that Mary Todd Lincoln’s madwoman reputation is a distortion of history by depicting the ways she and, by extension, all women were sidelined and condescended to.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
Steeped in fascinating tidbits about her life, Swift recounts how Harkness, who inherited the riches from her oil tycoon husband’s untimely death and even became the richest woman in America at one point, was considered an outcast and a madwoman for her unconventional choices and lavish lifestyle.
—Samantha Cooney, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
Though the role of the madwoman has long been central to the operatic imagination, the conditions and attitudes faced by Nellie Bly — dismissal, doubt, bias and abuse — remain pervasive realities for woman confronting trauma today.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
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Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
Manhunt has offered suggestion after suggestion that Mary Todd Lincoln’s madwoman reputation is a distortion of history by depicting the ways she and, by extension, all women were sidelined and condescended to.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
Steeped in fascinating tidbits about her life, Swift recounts how Harkness, who inherited the riches from her oil tycoon husband’s untimely death and even became the richest woman in America at one point, was considered an outcast and a madwoman for her unconventional choices and lavish lifestyle.
—Samantha Cooney, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
Though the role of the madwoman has long been central to the operatic imagination, the conditions and attitudes faced by Nellie Bly — dismissal, doubt, bias and abuse — remain pervasive realities for woman confronting trauma today.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
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“Madwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madwoman. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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madwoman
noun
mad·wom·an
ˈmad-ˌwu̇m-ən 
: a woman who is or who acts as if mentally unsound
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