In an interview for "Rolling Stone" magazine on 5 December 1980, three days before his murder John Lennon said that the song "came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda, it suddenly hit me what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms... but any truth is universal. What dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted. Women really are the other half of the sky, as I whisper at the beginning of the song. It's a 'we' or it ain't anything." In that same interview, Lennon continued that "Woman" was his most Beatlesque song on "Double Fantasy," and that the track is a "grown-up version" of his Beatles song "Girl."