Well, we thought that his Stefan had a lot of his Dad in him. But as he grew older I felt in fact was more like my father’s brothers in looks and that his temperament is not like mine and it’s not like his fathers at all. The one that I say to most often, you’re just like your father, is the one that he would claim least because she’s the most creative, she’s my artist daughter. She’s the most creative. She intends to be just the loveliest person to everybody all the time, but she gets kind of tied up in what’s she doing so she doesn’t quite get there. She doesn’t have many of his, just little habits; maybe just leaving a book in a certain way. It’s a kind of careless rapture through the world; let other people pick up the boring bits.

May Brenner was married to Sydney Brenner from December 1952 until her death in January 2010. She was engaged in doing a Ph.D. in Psychology in London.