Nuns often served as birth attendants to women in their communities.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
Drivers brawled with attendants when the gas ran out, or when the lines weren’t moving fast enough, and cops closed down the stations, which made no one happy.
But the bar maids rallied together and eventually won their fight.
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Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.
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