[1][2] When she was sixteen years old, she moved to her family's homestead in Northern California,[3] becoming a farmer in the mountains.

[4][5] At age nineteen, she was in a wagon accident, hitting her head on the steering wheel after her skirt caught in the brake; the injury led to chronic illness.

[3] In contrast with her anarchist contemporaries, who welcomed the revolutionary potential for self-governance in the United States Declaration of Independence, Daniels considered it a trap to sucker fools into dying in a war fought for the wealthy to avoid taxes.

[9] A 1919 report by the United States Department of Justice includes Daniels' writing in the Boston Traveler about women's suffrage:[9][10] The remarks of Rev.

[11] Daniels contributed writing and poetry to the anarchist publications The Firebrand, Free Society, Why?, Mother Earth, and The Dawn.