In the essay, “From the Poets in the Kitchen,” Paule Marshall talks about a time when she listened to a novelist who said that women possess the ability to talk with ordinary and typical words, which some expert writers use. This novelist also said that women, who use everyday words, converse mostly in the kitchen, and this experience plays an enormous role into them becoming a skillful writer. In addition, Marshall goes on to agree with the novelist by saying that “the proper measure of a writer’s talent is his skill in rendering everyday speech” (Marshall 139).
Marshall personally related to the novelist’s description of the experiences that made women better writers than