"impelled her" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an appropriate way to describe an act of strong motivation, propelling someone to take a particular action. For example, "His love of music impelled her to pursue a career as a professional singer."
That whetted her curiosity and impelled her to undertake what eventually became a seven-year project.
But what impelled her throughout her life was a 1960s spirit of radical revolt.
It has impelled her to strew sofas about at home and at work as others might deploy lamps or plants.
The ordeal has impelled her to slow down, reassess her job and even consider leaving her profession.
Low pay and poor working conditions had impelled her to take a leading role in efforts to unionize the plant.
Indignation, however, impelled her back to the restaurant, until the day that they happened to be there at the same time.
Her fatness and plainness are, arguably, what rescue her from her father's delusions, impel her toward honesty and save her.
I hope that Dr McKeith's instincts, as a fellow-scientist, will impel her to accept this challenge.
She keeps this journal hidden, we are told, under a loose tile in her bedroom until the threat of its discovery by the Germans impels her to bury it by her son's grave.
It's this crisis in her understanding that helped impel her to make the emotional teachers in her play — the beacons of moral honor — people who are themselves failing in full-fledged adulthood.
Ms. Marais seems to be following her protagonist as much as she is impelling her on her meandering, tentative journey, and "At Ellen's Age" is one of a handful of New Directors films that challenge conventional expectations of genre and plot.
