‘Our Bodies Were Born into Hard Labor’ Share February 7, 2019 Dm4r Books, Arts, and Culture Of herself, Sarah Smarsh writes, “I was the proverbial teen pregnancy, my very existence the mark of poverty. I was in a poor girl’s lining like a penny in a purse—not worth much, according to the economy, but kept in production.” Source : ‘Our Bodies Were Born into Hard Labor’