As a young person, she was once named one of the year ’ s 10 outstanding young women. One critic praised her thus: “ She is capable of tremendous subtlety or intensity depending on the occasion; she is able to evoke the past with tenderness or blaze ahead into new territory. ”
文壇大老余光中亦曾讚美張曉風是「亦秀亦豪的健筆」，又說「這枝筆，能寫景也能敘事，能詠物也能傳人，揚之有豪氣，抑之有秀氣。」