Female Foot-Archers training for the Traditional World Nomad Games of ethnic sports held in Kyrgyzstan
(Women Hold Up Half The Sky)
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“Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior












