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"Just Like a Woman"
Single by Bob Dylan from the album Blonde on Blonde
B-side	"Obviously 5 Believers"
Released	September, 1966
Format	7"
Recorded	March 8, 1966
Genre	Folk rock
Length	4:53 (album version) 2:56 (single edit)
Label	CBS
Writer	Bob Dylan
Producer	Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"I Want You" (1966) "Just Like a Woman" (1966) "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (1967)
Blonde on Blonde track listing
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (7) "Just Like a Woman" (8) "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (9)

Just Like a Woman is a 1966 song written by Bob Dylan and appearing on the second side of his classic 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.

On the American charts, "Just Like A Woman" peaked at #33.

Dylan wrote this ballad on Thanksgiving Day 1965 while touring in Kansas City. It was allegedly inspired by Warhol Factory girl Edie Sedgwick, a pin-up girl who appears in Blonde on Blonde's sleeve-photos. Sedgwick died of a drug overdose in 1971.

"Just Like A Woman" has also been rumored to be written about Dylan's relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.^{[citation needed]}

Some women's groups criticized this because of its disparaging lyrics.^{[citation needed]}

Nina Simone, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart, Richie Havens, Kikki Danielsson, and Andrew McMahon, amongst others, have all covered this song.

This song was not released as a single in the UK. Manfred Mann's version hit #10 there in 1966.

Dylan played the song at George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.

On the 'Denver Hotel Tape (1966),' he remarks to Robbie Robertson and Robert Shelton that this is the "best song I ever wrote."

• In a February 2000 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, presidential candidate Al Gore answered two questions by singing parts of "Just Like A Woman."

• In Woody Allen's 1978 Oscar-winning film Annie Hall, Allen's character goes on a date with a rock journalist who recites the chorus of "Just Like A Woman" when recalling a Dylan concert. The effect of her doing so comes off mockingly instead of flatteringly; she's illustrating Dylan's supposed lyrical genius with a chorus that isn't exactly full of social importance or poetic merit.

• In Stephen King's novel Carrie, a notebook is found that the title character had filled with the repeated lyrics, "Nobody has to guess/That Baby can't be blessed/Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest".

• Guitarist Bill Frisell covers this song on his album "Have a Little Faith".
• The Panics cover this song on their EP, Factory Girl, and on a bonus EP, Join The Dots, released with their album Cruel Guards.

• Lyrics - Official Site