一些女性历史学家记录女性的历史，而其他女性则是一般历史学家。以下是一些被称为历史学家的女性引用的话。

妇女史史学家

被认为是女性历史学科的创始人格尔达·勒纳写道，

"Women have always made history as much as men have, not 'contributed' to it, only they did not know what they had made and had no tools to interpret their own experience. What's new at this time is that women are fully claiming their past and shaping the tools by means of which they can interpret it."

玛丽·里特·比尔德（Mary Ritter Beard）在20世纪早期女性史成为一个公认的领域之前就写过女性史，她写道：

"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."

女历史学家

我们所知道的第一位书写历史的女性是安娜·科姆尼娜，一位生活在11和12世纪的拜占庭公主。她写了《阿列克谢德》，这是一部15卷的父亲成就史，包括一些医学和天文学，也包括一些女性的成就。

艾丽丝·莫尔斯·厄尔是一位几乎被遗忘的19世纪清教徒历史作家；因为她为孩子们写作，因为她的作品充满了“道德教诲”，她作为一名历史学家几乎被遗忘了。她对日常生活的关注预示了后来在女性历史学科中普遍存在的观点。

"In all the Puritan meetings, as then and now in Quaker meetings, the men sat on one side of the meeting-house and the women on the other; and they entered by separate doors. It was a great and much-contested change when men and women were ordered to sit together 'promiscuoslie.'" - Alice Morse Earle

Aparna Basu在新德里大学研究妇女历史，他写道：

"History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history."

当代女历史学家

今天，有许多女性历史学家，学术界的和大众的，她们写的是女性历史和一般的历史。

其中两名妇女是：

• 伊丽莎白·福克斯·吉诺维斯创建了第一个学术女性研究部，后来成为女权主义批评家。
• 多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温（Doris Kearns Goodwin），他的竞争对手团队被认为是奥巴马总统挑选内阁成员的灵感来源，他的书《不平凡的时光：富兰克林和埃莉诺·罗斯福》让埃莉诺·罗斯福活了起来。

"I realize that to be a historian is to discover the facts in context, to discover what things mean, to lay before the reader your reconstruction of time, place, mood, to empathize even when you disagree. You read all the relevant material, you synthesize all the books, you speak to all the people you can, and then you write down what you known about the period. You feel you own it." - Doris Kearns Goodwin

还有一些非历史学家对女性历史的引用：

"There is no life that does not contribute to history." - Dorothy West "The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves." - Louise Otto