Aging & Wisdom Quote by Bjork

"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" lands like a sideways grin: playful on the surface, quietly indicting underneath. Coming from Bjork, an artist whose work has long treated the body, nature, and technology as contested terrain, the line reads less like indecision than a jab at how feminism gets framed as a phase, a brand, or a “position” you take once you’re done being young, desirable, and safely marketable.

The word "maybe" does heavy lifting. It mimics the coy hedging women are often expected to perform in public - soften the claim, cushion the blow, don’t look angry. Yet Bjork’s delivery (and her public persona) makes that hedging feel strategic: a way to expose how audiences demand either palatable empowerment or silence. It also points to the absurd expectation that a woman should earn the right to political clarity, as if self-advocacy is something you graduate into after you’ve paid your dues to the industry.

"Old age" sharpens the critique. Feminism is treated, in pop culture, as something that threatens romance, image, and commercial appeal - the kind of label you can “afford” once the gaze has moved on. Bjork flips that logic: if feminism is supposedly the end of softness, then waiting becomes its own satire, highlighting how patriarchal systems punish women for naming them while they still need access to power.

It’s a small sentence that plays like a shrug, but it’s really a spotlight: on the costs of speaking plainly, and on the cultural demand that women time their convictions for everyone else’s comfort.