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"women grow by men"
Innuendo
Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 95-97

The nurse makes a sexual innuendo by telling Lady Capulet that a man makes a woman grow in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3.

Lady Capulet

So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less.

Nurse

No less! Nay, bigger — women grow by men.

Once again the nurse, intentionally or unintentionally, makes another sexual innuendo when Lady Capulet says that by having a man, a woman does not make herself any less. In fact, replies the nurse, having a man makes a woman grow because she gets pregnant.