The Second Sino-Japanese War brought great calamity and hardships, and became a common memory for many Chinese people. In order to present a more comprehensive view of women's wartime experiences, this article examines a lesser-known memoir of a female intellectual, Fan Xiaofan's Fengyu liuwang lu: yi wei zhishi nuxing de kangzhan jingli (A Life in Exile: A Female Intellectual's Experiences during the War of Resistance against Japan). This memoir consists of a compilation of diary entries. Although it may suffer from the inevitable overlapping of time and space, it provides a more realistic view of the mood and feeling of the author when she was writing the dairy. This special feature distinguishes this text from many other textualizations of memories. This article traces how Fan's memoir shows the war influenced the life of the newlywed Fan Xiaofan. As a female intellectual, how did she face various changes during the war? How did her experiences differ from men's? Or, did the war experience transcend gender differences? For the purpose of comparison, this article not only briefly compares Fan's experiences with other female intellectuals' wartime memories, it also brings in some wartime memories of male intellectuals.