Although numerous scholars have pointed out the need for feminist revisions to classical rhetoric or feminist additions to classical rhetoric, few scholars have examined the ways in which these two bodies of scholarship might work together. Many feminists either ignore theories of classical rhetoric or view classical rhetoric as an area that offers little insight into feminist rhetorical theories. While perhaps not intending to, the exclusion of classical rhetoric actually undermines feminist ideas of inclusion and coaxes feminists into an “either/or” mentality. By illustrating the areas of overlap and the relationships between classical rhetoric and invitational rhetoric—such as the emphasis on increasing understanding, the importance of ethos as communally constructed, and the possibility of end results of rhetoric other than persuasion—this study will open up and redeem classical rhetoric as a site for feminist scholarship, encouraging a “both/and” mentality, and will provide a way to view feminist rhetoric and classical rhetoric side by side, as harmonious rhetorical theories.