sqlite unescaped " character - how to escape double quotes?

I am having trouble importing into sql lite. I am exporting a table from Sql Server into a flat file encoded in UTF-8. And then trying to import the flat file into sqlite db. DB is UTF-8 encoded.

These lines are troublesome (tab delimited, line ends with CRLF):

ID  w   posid   def
1234    bracket 40  "(" and ")" spec...

1234    bracket 40  Any of the characters "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and, in the area of computer languages, "<" and ">".

Error:

unescaped " character

I have tried replacing the quotes " with double quotes "", still doesn't work.

Import settings: tab separator

.separator " "

.import data.txt words

sqlite Table Schema:

CREATE TABLE words (ID integer NOT NULL, w TEXT  NOT NULL, posid TEXT NOT NULL, def TEXT NOT NULL);