When it's time to leave you can get in your car and drive out. Oftentimes, you will be followed to your car. Quigley is an advocate of women carrying pepper spray. It comes in small canisters, which can be attached to a key chain. If you find yourself walking alone in a parking lot or underground garage, carry the pepper spray in your hand.
Pepper spray can stop most attackers if it's sprayed at the face.
Women and Guns Quigley also advocates women owning guns for self-protection. I know a nurse in Kentucky who was on the nightshift and came home very early in the morning. When she got out of her car, she realized there was a man following her. She was able to shoot the perpetrator, and she's alive today. Safe Room At home, Paxton suggest having a safe room.