# Quote — J. M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country

> unused body now dusty, dry, unsavoury

- Author: [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md)
- Book: [In the Heart of the Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/in-the-heart-of-the-country.md)
- Page: 44
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee#In_the_Heart_of_the_Country_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/in-the-heart-of-the-country/unused-body-now

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> The new wife is a lazy big boned voluptuous feline woman…

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> I am… a farmgirl… not unaware that there is a hole between my legs that has never been filled.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/in-the-heart-of-the-country/i-am-a-farmgirl.md)

> “I am a child,” she tells him, “Despite my years, I am an old child, a sinister old child full of stale juices. Someone should make a woman of me… , someone should make a hole in me to let the old juices run out.”

p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/in-the-heart-of-the-country/i-am-a-child.md)