The subject of this essay is feminine writing, a concept that can be applied to both female and male writers. We demonstrate how the characteristics of this writing are expressed in Lygia Fagundes Telles s work and also in other texts by female and male writers. The concept of feminine writing encompasses not only the psychoanalytic approach to the primordial experiences expressed in the literary discourse, but also the thematic perspective that shows how the female approach is different from the masculine in dealing with female characters, responsible for the point of view of the narrative. Also, postmodern thinking helps feminist criticism to reread literary works. In this context, the feminine emerges as the place of difference, and feminine writing becomes revolutionary as discursive potency, opposing the status quo and allowing the emergence of a voice that was previously silent: the voice of the feminine universe. This is also a question of language, because the new discourse demands a new language. Changes in ways of dealing the feminine have produced, in the real world, a pattern of libertarian behavior symbolized in the 1970s by the actress Leila Diniz.