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Use your purse, watch movies, and then what?  You definitely need a little more advice than that, right?  Call your local YMCA.  Most have self-defense classes, martial-arts classes or both.  Enroll and practice, practice, practice.  You cannot learn everything about defending yourself by reading.  You need to DO IT.  I have been practicing martial arts for years.  I often get asked if I have ever had to use my training, “for real.”  I am fortunate in that I have not been placed into a situation where I have needed this training.  But I now have the confidence that I will not panic.  I know that I first must try to get away, and if that does not work, I have a few tricks up my sleeve and am not afraid to use them!