In the Following Excerpt from the Second Sex (Evaluating the Evidence

In the following excerpt from The Second Sex (Evaluating the Evidence 29.2) , Simone de Beauvoir offers her views on marriage: "Marriage must combine two autonomous existences, not be a withdrawal, an annexation, an escape, a remedy. . . . The couple should not consider itself a community, a closed cell: instead, the individual as individual has to be integrated into a society in which he can thrive without assistance; he will then be able to create links in pure generosity with another individual equally adapted to the group, links founded on the recognition of two freedoms."
In Beauvoir's view,

A) marriage should be abolished.
B) men and women have very different roles in marriage.
C) both partners in a marriage must maintain their autonomy.
D) marriage is the union of souls.