Salma Deera Quotes

you are suitable for my skin type-
my life type
my heart type. ~ Salma Deera

i am a human body turned inside out.
my soft skin is saved for me alone. ~ Salma Deera

she says to me:
'if you want to hurt a man, you don't kill
the man. you kill what he loves.'
i nod.
and then i ask her: 'so how do you hurt a woman?'
she answers:
'my child, a woman is hurting from the moment of birth. ~ Salma Deera

some boys will give you the
sun so you can bloom.
but other boys will give you the sun
to watch you melt. ~ Salma Deera

Take back your rib, Eve cries.
I didn't want it. I never did. It is weighing me down. ~ Salma Deera

in astronomy class, the muse urania angrily watches a panel of men talk about the wonders of the stars as though they created them. ~ Salma Deera

the centre of every poem is this:
i have loved you. i have had to deal with that. ~ Salma Deera

you will rise.
and are you less of a woman for this? no
what is woman?
woman is this - enduring.
listen girl, you will survive this–you will.
but what fool said you had to do it silently?
here is a tip - scream ~ Salma Deera

My love translated sounds like a dead language. ~ Salma Deera

in your dream, you are jealous of tragedies.
and the truth is, we all want our own tragedy,
because life is pale without it.
we want the teeth, the screaming.
the survival
that comes with it. ~ Salma Deera

when i love, it happens almost all at once.
it is inconsiderate, unrefined -
a child screeching in a supermarket
it's a thunderclap.
it is a small village blackout.
it is aphrodite rising from the sea foam, fully formed. ~ Salma Deera

but tell me, who was it that made you dangerous?

it was no one.

it was me.


it was everyone. ~ Salma Deera

i want to discover myself.
i want to destroy myself.
i want to be a secret that nobody but i can ruin. ~ Salma Deera

it's like this:
say there's a whole room of people and you're somewhere in the middle of them all.
i walk in and i see you, but you don't suddenly become the only person in the room. god no. you become the room. you are the room. ~ Salma Deera

love is just a synonym for absinthe.
absinthe is a synonym for 'i don't
know what i'm doing anymore. ~ Salma Deera

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing. ~ Salma Hayek

I just love life. I'm excited about things in life. I think that if you're excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day. ~ Salma Hayek

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it. ~ Salma Hayek

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?' ~ Kim Kardashian

It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma ~ Cynthia Lord

I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women. ~ Salma Hayek

While wealth will be a capricious shadow to our lives, true riches lie in strength of character; that is infinitely harder to accumulate. It is the only gold that enhances our potential in terms of what we can offer the world. ~ Salma Farook

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world. ~ Salma Hayek

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better. ~ Salma Hayek

I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe. ~ Salma Hayek

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone. ~ Salma Hayek

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. ~ Salma Hayek

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41. ~ Salma Hayek

The quest for perfection lead down the dangerous path of procrastination. ~ Salma Farook

I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence. ~ Salma Hayek

I can learn my lines fine. It's just reading them in the first place that is the problem. ~ Salma Hayek

I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question! ~ Salma Hayek

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos. ~ Salma Hayek

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. ~ Salma Hayek

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables. ~ Salma Hayek

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight. ~ Salma Hayek

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not. ~ Salma Hayek

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. ~ Salma Hayek

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. ~ Salma Hayek

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice. ~ Salma Hayek

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time. ~ Salma Hayek

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip. ~ Don Winslow

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance. ~ Salma Hayek

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are. ~ Salma Hayek

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real. ~ Salma Hayek

When I'm doing a movie, that's when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That's why I make so many. ~ Salma Hayek

I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career ... ~ Salma Hayek

I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma ~ Cynthia Lord

Celebrate the varied splendour in this world, and remind yourself that it can also be found in you. ~ Salma Farook

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun. ~ Salma Hayek

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress. ~ Salma Hayek

When you meet Death, be sure to tell her of how much you have endured, and how staggeringly you have triumphed. Tell her of the countless lives you have touched. ~ Salma Farook

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. ~ Salma Hayek

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them. ~ Salma Hayek