铁凝将生活本相的探寻和女性世界的建构作为其日常生活的重要内容。在对生活本相的探寻中，铁凝潜入生活的底部，从家庭生活的多元呈现、底层人物的双重困境、日常生活的滋味和情意等方面表现了人在日常生活中始终面临的贫穷、琐碎、矛盾等困境，也发现了始终存在的滋味与情义，从而揭示了“春日春光有时好，春日春光有时坏，有时不好也不坏”的生活本相。在对女性世界的建构中，铁凝主要塑造了三类女性代表，分别是纯净与力量的代表、欲望与丑陋的代表和女性的成长与出路。但铁凝没有局限于或偏袒某类女性，而是贴近她们的身体与心灵，既看到她们的纯净与力量，也直面她们的欲望与丑陋，并挖掘其价值或背后的成因，还寄托了自己对女性成长与出路的理想。总体来看，铁凝无论是在对生活本相的探寻还是女性世界的建构中都始终保持着善意与温柔，给人温暖与希望，透露出她对生命本身的关注与关怀。

        Tie Ning regards the exploration of the essence of life and the construction of the female world as important contents of daily life writing. In the exploration of the essence of life, Tie Ning always sneaks into the bottom of life, showing the poverty, trivialities, contradictions and other dilemmas that people have always faced in daily life from the aspects of diversified presentation of family life, the dual dilemma of the underlying characters, the taste and feelings of daily life. It also found the taste and feelings that have always existed, thus revealing the life that "Spring is sometimes good, spring is sometimes bad, and sometimes not bad". In the construction of the female world, Tie Ning mainly shaped three types of female representatives, the representative of purity and power, the representative of desire and ugliness, and the growth and exit of women. But Tie Ning does not limit or favor certain types of women, but keeps close to their bodies and minds. She not only sees women’s purity and strength, but also faces their desires and ugliness, explores their value or the causes behind them, and also pins on her ideals of women's growth and exit. Generally speaking, Tie Ning has always maintained goodwill and gentleness in her exploration of life and construction of the female world, giving people warmth and hope, and revealing her attention and care for life itself.