 | |  Show your daughter (or your mom) how it's done: go into business together. Start a mother-daughter newspaper, like the Goddards, the Timothys, and numerous other female printers in early America. Create your own psychic hotline, as did voodoo mom-and-daughter Marie Laveau. (Lots of ideas in the multi-generational examples in Uppity Women of the New World.)
In honor of Eliza Wood Farnham, the most compassionate matron that Sing Sing peniteniary ever had, visit female prisoners in your area. Bring 'em some stuffed animals or a book—or organize a singalong—that's what Eliza did. Before her day, female prisoners had to observe total silence. Yikes! Teachers, have your class nominate an uppity woman or women of early America for inclusion on a U.S. stamp. Applications and criteria are available from the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, c/o Stamp Development, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4474-E, Washington DC 20260-2437. Smoker? Try using your tobacco for money, instead of smoking it. Tobacco was one of the main currencies of the fledgling United States; for many decades, everyone from doctors to ferry-boat operators was paid in it! When you get challenged, lay the historical argument on them. 
| | Do something revolutionary (and we don't mean a new nail polish color). Join a Quaker peace group. Work for Habitat for Humanity, or Earthwatch—lots of uppity women there. Short on time? give money to battered women's shelters or the women's political caucus in your area. Leave your school, city, or town a better place. Fund something—like a Farmers' Market or a Community Center Start a needed service—the way Katy Ferguson did in New York Be a small-scale philanthropist—that's how former slave Biddy Mason did it in Los Angeles Buy or donate women's history books to your library Be next year's new Granny Smith! The Washington state Apple Commission holds a contest for grandmothers each year; winners declared at the Apple Festival each May. | Bring a basket of Granny Smith apples to work—and as you share them with co-workers,tell them about Maria Ann Smith, who developed this apple in Australia | | | |
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| Start a religion! Jemima Wilkerson did it in 1776, and made herself the new messiah. Or perhaps something on the order of that oldtime religion on Hawaii, where Kapiolani was head priestess. (Great perks: she got to have a male harem!) Or simply aim for sainthood, like Native American Kateri Tekakwitha, who is already two steps up the ladder to a halo. Whether you're keen on the brattier colonials, or more interested in indigenous women, visit the landmarks left, or monuments to, these truly remarkable women. Examples: the cabin of super-macho Nancy Hart of Georgia; Sacagawea's stops and monuments; Witchduck Point, VA, where accused "witch" Grace Sherwood was given a trial by ducking—and got off free. Rent movies about adventuresome sheroes and uppity women: although their story lines invariably tend to go for the old chestnut, "she did it for him," they are still worth seeing. Examples: Artemisia; Dangerous Beauty; Lady Jane; The Lion in Winter; and that old classic, Queen Christina, with Greta Garbo
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