--- title: Miranda July Is on the 2025 TIME100 List description: Find out why Miranda July is one of the 100 most influential people of 2025. canonical: https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273829/miranda-july/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-04-16T10:30:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:46:29.135Z article:section: World og:title: Miranda July: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 og:description: Find out why Miranda July is on this year’s list og:url: https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273829/miranda-july/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt923789fab33975c8/6998c5c1e2d64b49f7c5f3f4/time100-2025-miranda-july.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Miranda July: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Miranda July: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 twitter:description: Find out why Miranda July is on this year’s list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt923789fab33975c8/6998c5c1e2d64b49f7c5f3f4/time100-2025-miranda-july.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 16, 2025 # Miranda July by Molly Ringwald  FILE -- The director, screenwriter and author Miranda July, in Los Angeles, April 11, 2024.¬†She and the protagonist of her novel "All Fours" share some biographical details. (Dana Scruggs/The New York Times) FILE -- The director, screenwriter and author Miranda July, in Los Angeles, April 11, 2024.¬†She and the protagonist of her novel "All Fours" share some biographical details. (Dana Scruggs/The New York Times)Dana Scruggs—The New York Times/Redux In 1792, Georges Danton stood before the French people and called for audacity—an insistence on courage as a means of survival. Centuries later, in a different kind of revolution, the multi-hyphenate artist Miranda July seemed to echo that call. Her novel [_All Fours_](https://time.com/7172893/all-fours/ "undefined")is not about overthrowing monarchies but about dismantling something quieter, yet no less insidious: the expectation that women, as they age, should disappear. ​July doesn’t just tap into the zeitgeist; she helps shape it. Her prose is startlingly original yet immediately familiar, like meeting a stranger who reminds you of yourself. How did she create something so original and yet so relatable? I’ve known Miranda peripherally for years and once even collaborated with her, but like so many other women, after reading her book I felt like I got to know her intimately. This is her revolution: unflinching and insistent—a defiance against erasure. Audacity, always audacity. _Ringwald is an actor and writer_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273829/miranda-july/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273829/miranda-july/"},"headline":"Miranda July","datePublished":"2025-04-16T10:30:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:46:29.135Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273829/miranda-july/","keywords":["TIME100","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","t100artists2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt923789fab33975c8/6998c5c1e2d64b49f7c5f3f4/time100-2025-miranda-july.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt923789fab33975c8/6998c5c1e2d64b49f7c5f3f4/time100-2025-miranda-july.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273829/miranda-july/","name":"Miranda July"}}]}] ```